Posted on 10/21/2005 12:33:19 PM PDT by NavVet
KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by U.S. troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn't let it mar their impression of the United States.
His apparent attempt to reduce Afghans' anger over the incident came amid warnings by Islamic clerics of a possible violent anti-American backlash.
"Sometimes things happen in these sort of operations, during war. Soldiers make mistakes," he told reporters in Kabul. "We are very grateful for the international community's assistance. ... Their soldiers have shed their blood in our country."
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THANK YOU!
I'm damned sick of this. 'Desecrate' a barbarian and we're baaaad. They desecrate, mutilate and celebrate over American bodies, and that's just how they are!
These soldiers deserve commendations for using what works against the enemy. I would desecrate the whole damned hellhole of a country from border to border, along with all other Islamic countries for good measure.
It's WAR, you use all weapons available to you.
Do what you have to to win.
Atone later if you feel the need.
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.
Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.
All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.
Why don't we remember the poor folks who jumped out windows at the World Trade Center in order to avoid a horrible burning death? Our American soldiers did well, even though they were just burning DEAD Taliban bodies. God Bless our American military.
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